101 Inspirational/Street/Photography Quotes

101 Inspirational/Street/Photography Quotes:

1.”Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death? A: About 1/60 at f5.6.” – Robert Capa2. “For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.” – Robert Capa3. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough” – Robert Capa4. “The Pictures are there, and you just take them” – Robert Capa5. “This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.” – Robert Capa6. “The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible” – Oscar Wilde7. “My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity – the suspended moment – intervenes during action, in the viewfinder.” – Abbas8. “Emotion or feeling is really the only thing about pictures I find interesting. Beyond that is is just a trick.” – Christopher Anderson9. “If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.” – Eve Arnold10. “Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” – Bruno Barbey11. “I never thought I would become a photographer.” – Rene Burri12. “Still images can be moving and moving images can be still. Both meet within soundscapes” Chien-Chi Chang13. “It’s not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It;s their intimate relationship with it.” – Antoine D’Agata14. “The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.” – Raymond Depardon15. “All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice.” – Elliott Erwitt16. “The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things in words.” – Elliott Erwitt17. “I love photographing. It’s that simple.” – Stuart Franklin18. “Ultimately photography is about who you are. It’s the truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit.” – Leonard Freed19. “I want the viewers to be moved into the lives of the people that they are looking at, the visual experience is incredibly emotional.” Paul Fusco20. “Taking pictures is like fishing or writing. It’s getting out of the unknown that which resists and refuses to come to light” – Jean Gaumy21. “I love the people I photograph. I mean, they’re my friends. Ive never met most of them or I don’t know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.” – Bruce Gilden22. “I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.” – Jim Goldberg23. “I’m very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I’m exploring.” – Tim Hetherington24. “I am not an artist. I am an image maker.” – Thomas Hoepker25. “The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.” – Richard Kalvar

26. “A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.” – Guy Le Querrec27. “I really don’t have any idea about photography, but I take pictures.” – Alex Majoli28. “Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.” Steve McCurry29. “My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” – Steve McCurry30. “The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.” Susan Meiselas31. “I think good dreaming is what leads to good photographs.” – Wayne Miller32. “To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.” – Inge Morath33. “I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.” – Trent Parke34. “I don’t care so much anymore about ‘good photography’; I am gathering evidence for history.” – Gilles Peress35. “A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.” Raghu Rai36. “A photograph is not created by a photographer. What they do is just open a little window and capture it. The world then writes itself on the film. The act of the photographer is closer to reading than it is to writing. They are the readers of the world.” – Ferdinando Scianna37. “A photo is a small voice, at best, but sometimes – just sometimes – one photograph or a group of them can lure our senses into awareness. Much depends upon the viewer; in some, photographs can summon enough emotion to be a catalyst to thought.” – W. Eugene Smith38. “I fell in love with taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.” Alec Soth39. “When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.”40. “Everything shifts as you move, and different things come into focus at different points of your life, and you try to articulate that.” Chris Steele – Perkins41. “For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.” – Mikhael Subotzky42. “Photography cannot do much. It provides some level of information, yet it has no pretensions about changing the world.” John Vink43. “I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.” – Alex Webb44. “The idea of a photography seemed to come together with the idea that this is how I could be – someone who could have one step in the world while at the same time being one step removed from it.” – Donovan Wylie45. “Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality truly is.” – Anonymous46. “When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.” – Christophe Agou47. “Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.” – Christophe Agou48.”Buy a good pair of comfortable shoes, have a camera around your neck at all times, keep your elbows in, be patient, optimistic and don’t forget to smile.” – Matt Stuart49.”I’m left handed, have a double jointed finger, and almost lost my thumb when I was younger. I resent the fact that cameras are not made for lefties.” – Matt Stuart50.”When people ask me what equipment I use – I tell them my eyes.” – Anonymous

51. “Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.” – Anonymous52. ”It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.” – David Bailey53. ”During the work, you have to be sure that you haven’t left any holes, that you’ve captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson54. ”Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson55. ”If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.” – Garry Winogrand56. ”I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.” – Garry Winogrand57. ”Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.” – Garry Winogrand58. ”There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.” – Garry Winogrand59. ”Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” – Ansel Adams60. ”When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!” – Ted Grant61. ”The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” – Robert Doisneau62. ”Which of my photographs is my favourite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.” – Imogen Cunningham63. ”I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.” – Alec Soth64. ”Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the ‘ah-ha’.” – Ernst Haas65. “Don’t check.” – Lord Ripon66. ”That right moment.” – Gary Stochl67. ”With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society’s natural prejudice and giving this a twist.” – Martin Parr68. ”You can’t learn passion, either you’ve got it or you haven’t.” – Martin Parr69. ”All photography is propaganda.” – Martin Parr70. ”What I did, anybody can do.” – Weegee71. ”News photography teaches you to think fast.” – Weegee72. ”A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.” – Roland Barthes73. ”What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.” – Rola74. ”I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.” – Don McCullin75. ”Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” – Don McCullin

76. ”I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not ‘photographing’, in order to keep the eye in practice.” – Josef Koudelka,77. ”I find it particularly exciting when a picture evokes anything near that word, ‘mystery’.” – Jeff Mermelstein78. ”Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” – Diane Arbus79. ”I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.” – Diane Arbus80. ”Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” – Ansel Adams81. ”You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams82. ”A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” – Ansel Adams83. ”The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.” – Ansel Adams84. ”Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments.” – Alex Tehrani85. ”I guess I’ve shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.” – Harry Callahan86. ”Sharpness is a bourgeois concept.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson87. ”I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.” – Philippe Halsman88. ”I don’t want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion – and to raise money.” – Sebastiao Salgado89. ”I don’t believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.” – Sebastiao Salgado90. ”It’s not the photographer that makes the picture, but the person being photographed.” – Sebastiao Salgado91. “A tear contains an ocean. A photographer is aware of the tiny moments in a persons life that reveal greater truths.” – Anonymous92. “A photographer strives to be fully aware of every moment, and to be one with all others every moment.” – Anonymous93. “Once you learn to care, you can record images with your mind or on film. There is no difference between the two.” – Anonymous94.”The only ‘bad light’ is the absence of light altogether.” – Anonymous95. “Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.” – Morley Baer96. “I didn’t choose photography. Photography chose me.” Gerardo Suter97. “Photography is the beauty of life, captured.” – Tara Chisholm98. “Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it.” – Walter Sickert99. “A photograph is the pause button on life.” – Ty Holland100. “You can give everything to photography but photography will give you only 1 thing – happiness.” – Anonymous101. “A roll of film costs $6.00 – a roll of history is priceless.” – Anonymous